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Degree Programme Table: Sociology and Social Anthropology (MA Hons) (UTSCYSA)

Year 1, Academic year 2013/14, Starting month: September

  • Notes: Before selecting your outside courses, please ensure you have met your
    Director of Studies.


  • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 5 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    SCIL08004 Sociology 1A: The Sociological Imagination: Individuals and Society As available 20
    SCIL08005 Sociology 1B: The Sociological Imagination: Private Troubles, Public Problems As available 20
    SCAN08003 Social Anthropology 1A: An Introduction As available 20
    SCAN08002 Social Anthropology 1B: The Practice of Social Anthropology As available 20
    SCIL08010 Fundamentals: Developing Sociological Imagination As available 0




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 1 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

     


    Year 2, Academic year 2013/14, Starting month: August


    COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 4 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    SCIL08007 Sociology 2: Transformations of Self and Society As available 20
    SCAN08004 Social Anthropology 2: Into the Field As available 20
    SSPS08004 Social and Political Enquiry 2 As available 20
    SSPS08002 Social and Political Theory 2 As available 20




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 1 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

     


    Year 3, Academic year 2013/14, Starting month: August

  • Notes: Students who have passed courses to the required value of 240 credits, and achieved marks of 50% or more at the first attempt in all required second-year courses for their registered degree, are automatically entitled to progress to honours. Students who are planning on spending their Junior Year Abroad must successfully progress to honours before they can proceed on their JYA.


  • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 3 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    SCIL10018 Social Theory As available 20
    SCIL10062 Designing and Doing Social Research As available 20
    SCIL10063 Doing Survey Research As available 20




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 4 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    SCAN10022    Anthropological Theory   20  
    SCAN10031    Consumption, Exchange, Technology   20  
    SCAN10021    Kinship: Structure and Process   20  
    SCAN10023    Ritual and Religion   20  

     
    AND   

    Select exactly 0 credits course level 10, as available
    SCAN10037     Imagining Anthropological Research     (0 credits)

    Notes:Students taking the Dissertation in Social Anthropology should enroll for this 0 credit preparatory course, others should not.
     


    AND   

    Overarching rule collection group: B  
    Select exactly 20 credits from these collections:  


    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    SCIL10033    Armed Force and Society   20  
    SSPS10001    Contemporary Feminist Debates   20  
    LAWS10104    Criminology 1   20  
    SCIL10062    Designing and Doing Social Research   20  
    SCIL10063    Doing Survey Research   20  
    SCIL10073    Gender, Marginality and Social Change   20  
    SCIL10067    Globalization   20  
    SCIL10023    Intimate Relationships   20  
    SCIL10065    Nations and Nationalism   20  
    SCIL10064    Popular Music, Technology and Society   20  
    SCIL10037    The Project Presentation   20  
    LAWS10057    Punishment and Society   40  
    SCIL10071    Race And Ethnicity   20  
    SCIL10058    Religion and Society   20  
    SCIL10020    Scotland: Social Structure and Social Change   20  
    SCIL10047    Social & Political Movements: Theory and Practice   20  
    SCIL10018    Social Theory   20  
    SCIL10072    Sociology of Emotions   20  
    SCIL10054    Sociology of Intoxication   20  
    SCIL10024    Sociology of the Environment and Risk   20  
    SPRT10021    Sport, Media and Society   20  
    SCIL10056    The Internet and Society   20  

     
    OR   

    Select exactly credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    SCAN10028    Southeast Asia   20  
    SCAN10021    Kinship: Structure and Process   20  
    SCAN10023    Ritual and Religion   20  
    SCAN10044    Social Development   20  
    SCAN10010    The Invention of History   20  
    SCAN10056    Indigenous Politics, Culture and Screen in Canada   20  
    SCAN10057    Humans and Other Species   20  
    SCAN10058    Anthropology of Violence   20  
    SCAN10055    Human Origins and the Genesis of Symbolic Thought   20  
    SCAN10059    Ethnography of the USA   20  

     



    Year 4, Academic year 2013/14, Starting month: August


    COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 0 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 4 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    SCIL10045    Sociology Project   40  
    SCAN10036    Dissertation (MA Social Anthropology)   40  

    Notes:Whether taking the Sociology Project or the Social Anthropology Dissertation, students are expected to use part of the summer vacation of their third year on research for it.
     
    AND   

    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    SCAN10032    Belief, Thought and Language   20  
    SCAN10030    Culture and Power   20  

     

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    SCIL10033    Armed Force and Society   20  
    SSPS10001    Contemporary Feminist Debates   20  
    LAWS10104    Criminology 1   20  
    SCIL10062    Designing and Doing Social Research   20  
    SCIL10063    Doing Survey Research   20  
    SCIL10073    Gender, Marginality and Social Change   20  
    SCIL10067    Globalization   20  
    SCIL10023    Intimate Relationships   20  
    SCIL10065    Nations and Nationalism   20  
    SCIL10064    Popular Music, Technology and Society   20  
    SCIL10037    The Project Presentation   20  
    LAWS10057    Punishment and Society   40  
    SCIL10071    Race And Ethnicity   20  
    SCIL10058    Religion and Society   20  
    SCIL10020    Scotland: Social Structure and Social Change   20  
    SCIL10047    Social & Political Movements: Theory and Practice   20  
    SCIL10018    Social Theory   20  
    SCIL10072    Sociology of Emotions   20  
    SCIL10054    Sociology of Intoxication   20  
    SCIL10024    Sociology of the Environment and Risk   20  
    SPRT10021    Sport, Media and Society   20  
    SCIL10056    The Internet and Society   20  

     

    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    SCAN10028    Southeast Asia   20  
    SCAN10021    Kinship: Structure and Process   20  
    SCAN10023    Ritual and Religion   20  
    SCAN10044    Social Development   20  
    SCAN10010    The Invention of History   20  
    SCAN10056    Indigenous Politics, Culture and Screen in Canada   20  
    SCAN10057    Humans and Other Species   20  
    SCAN10058    Anthropology of Violence   20  
    SCAN10055    Human Origins and the Genesis of Symbolic Thought   20  
    SCAN10059    Ethnography of the USA   20  

     


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